Sentences with phrase «global meetings about»

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Global investors this week seemed to shrug off anxieties about a US — China trade war and focus instead on news that North Korean dictator Kim Jong - un steamed by armored train from Pyongyang to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

On his first visit to Facebook - crazy Indonesia, Mark Zuckerberg met the president - elect, spread the word about his company's global Internet - access initiative and posted a photo of himself at an ancient Buddhist temple.

«It's not just about satisfying a requirement or meeting hurdles from a regulatory standout, but actually looking at what my exposure is in this area and making sure that it's properly addressed,» said Lori Bailey Global head of special lines within Zurich General Insurance.

The G20, which met in China in early September, included concerns about antimicrobial resistance in its closing communique, saying that AMR «poses a serious threat to public health, growth, and global economic stability.»

Its customers tend to be educated and care about sourcing and traceability, which is why the food chain sells meat that is certified to meet Global Animal Partnership's (GAP) welfare rating standards, something Krave was able to provide.

Minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) January meeting showed policy makers had become more confident about the domestic outlook, thanks in part to a synchronized upturn in the global economy.

However following the latest meeting, when the Fed decided to hold rates on rising concerns about the global economy, analysts increasingly expect the central bank to delay a hike until next year.

At the company's weekly all hands meeting, CEO Travis Kalanick addressed concerns about his working relationship with Trump by claiming it's necessary in order to fulfill Uber's mission of improving global transportation.

As a Young Global Leader, Sara Sutton Fell had the opportunity to contribute to conversations about the future of work and to be included among the many distinguished leaders attending the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos 2016.

We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.

The two met during a three - daylong series of discussions at the Vatican about the fourth annual international conference called Unite to Cure: A Global Health Care Initiative.

They talk about the Queen's Christian faith, why evangelists are giving out free hugs on the UK's streets, when God takes over your church meeting, the global phenomenon of Muslims turning to Christ and Christian apologist Larry Taunton's unlikely friendship with atheist Christopher Hitchens.

Absent other effective measures to control dietary shifts and reduce food loss and waste, the world will need to produce about 70 percent more food annually by 2050 to meet global demands.

The company also created programs such as Wellness Wednesday and concepts including Take Nutrition Global that meet the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act guidelines and «get students excited about what's offered in the cafeterias,» Wagner says.

The rumblings about The Carlyle Group and Pacific Equity Partners struggling to meet Friday's deadline for full and binding bids for SAI Global became louder on Thursday.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

This involves regular meetings with local industry to build strong relationships and to collect and disseminate market information and knowledge about the supply chain, as well as conducting seminars, forums and delegations to educate trade about the Australian supply chain, market trends and global demand drivers and reinforce Australia's superior integrity systems.

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The Minister is expected to meet with some key players in global affairs to update them about recent happening in Nigeria

General News of Monday, 14 May 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com File photo Governments and forest actors are about to meet in Ghana to address commodity - driven deforestation, an issue that has risen in global prominence since many major food and consumer goods companies committed to ending deforestation in key supply chains in 2010.

As the program was coming to a close, Legislator Lorigo met with Felissa Masumbuko, 4 - H Youth CAN Teen Leader Intern and Global Concepts student, to learn more about her internship with Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled, and Disadvantaged of WNY.

Legislator Dixon visited Mercy Nursing Facility to meet with intern Donovan Wallace, a Lackawanna resident and student at Global Concepts Charter School, to learn more about how the Youth CAN program has helped him in his pursuit to becoming a physical therapist.

The prime minister is in Strasbourg to meet with MEPs about a European solution to the global financial meltdown.

After the meeting Senator Akshar, who represents Binghamton, says he's not against the ideas in the bill, but he says GOP senators want a more «global conversation» that addresses some of the Republican senators» concerns about labor unions having undue influence if the LLC loophole is closed.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has scheduled a meeting with Angelia Jolie to discuss «global diplomacy,» and he'll write about it on his blog.

To meet the needs of a world that is expected to have an additional 890 million people by 2020, the global community would need to increase food production by about 13 percent, the report states.

«We're glad the governor went to global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.

And while the meeting was frank about the major problems facing the planet while being relatively upbeat about solving at least some of them, one side session also showed the darker side of global deliberations with a look at some of the options being offered by intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate through geoengineering from dumping iron filings into the ocean to seeding clouds and pumping «designer particles» into the stratosphere.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on global warming.

During the week there was plenty of opportunity to inform people about the upcoming 66th Lindau Meeting, different outreach projects or the global academic partner network.

I wore this outfit this past weekend to a NARS event at Saks Fifth Ave where we learned about some of the newest products and was able to meet a global makeup artist that has worked with some great celebrities.

Since April is «National Humor Month,» our friends at SKOUT, the global app that helps you meet people and expand your social circle, asked 3,372 of their members their thoughts about profile photos and also did a deep dive into the topics of humor, friendship, and more.

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Meet other Global Citizens who care about the same issues you do.

Lavelle's meetings with many of these creeps evokes questions about the wealth of the Church after the Global Financial Crisis, violence being acceptable in other cultures, gun laws and assisted suicides.

This is the biggest Marvel Studios film to date — the story plays out on a global scale and the main cast reaches double digits — but many of its best moments are small, throwaway beats: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who is cramped in the back of a small car, asking a surly Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to move his seat up; a starstruck Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) so giddy about meeting Captain America (Chris Evans) he practically asks for a selfie; Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) teaching the synthetic Vision (Paul Bettany) how to properly use paprika in a recipe; Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) casually flirting with Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), to the alarm of her nephew Peter Parker (Tom Holland).

The conceit of the film is that a climate scientist is interested in meeting her and talking about how global warming is destroying her subject matter.

She is currently in packaging for The Yogi Trademark — a female - driven indie comedy about narcissism meeting mindfulness in the global yoga arena — working alongside Chris Thomas and Dan Damman, a San Francisco writing / directing team that recently completed a year - long residency at San Francisco Film Society's FilmHouse.

During the meeting, Mrs. Cecile Guidote - Alvarez accepted to become honorary membership at Global Education Magazine and she also made a speech about her experience as Director of the Philippine Center of International Theater Institute / Earthsavers UNESCO DREAM Center and Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Therapeutic Emergency Response for the area affected by earthquake and super Typhoon Haiyan in Bohol, as she had made in a previous interview with Global Education Magazine.

LEAD goes a long way in helping newly - recruited employees know more about the organization — they can get a virtual tour of their global offices, meet top management (via videos), and more.

Over the past 35 years, Bett has evolved into the world's meeting place for those passionate about education, bringing 850 leading companies, the best edtech start - ups and over 34,700 attendees from the global education community together in 2017 to find inspiration and discuss the future of education.

During the meeting Mr. Khatri talked about the job of UNESCO with the Ministry of Education in Cambodia, the special programs developed to combat literacy, the law number of students at schools, and also about the future Global Citizenship Education proposed by UNESCO.

On the occasion of School Day of Non-violence and Peace (January 30th), Global Education Magazine Director of Edition, Javier Collado Ruano, met with Mr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Ex-Director-General of UNESCO, to discuss about the role played by Education in making awareness of building a Universal Democracy based on Peace and Nonviolence.

Educators, policymakers, parents, and others interested in preparing students to be productive global citizens will gain a clear understanding of what kinds of knowledge and skills constitute «digital competence» and «global competence,» and what schools can — and must — do to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization and technology.

Fellows will also meet with representatives from a multinational business to learn about Peru's global economy.

Harshman's involvement in a number of global competency professional development efforts in the Midwest in places like Ohio and Illinois not only keep him busy, but, «energized by the creativity and interest to teach students about their interdependency with and responsibility to people they may never meet and places they may never go.»

In the first episode of a new behind - the - scenes documentary about the development of the 2016 Ford Focus RS, Block meets Ford global product development group vice president Raj Nair and takes a prototype of the Focus RS to the company's test track.

Local book clubs might offer you an opportunity to meet the readers and talk to them about your work, while online book clubs offer the benefit of global reach and higher numbers, allowing you to work at scale.